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This article is inspired by theoretical developments within the social sciences that focus on the materiality of everyday objects and processes. Based on ethnographic research in the city of Carrara,
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This paper explores the emergence of the Slow Food Movement, an international consumer movement dedicated to the protection of "endangered foods." The history of one of these "endangered foods," lardo
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This paper explores the meaning of work in the marble quarries of Carrara through a comparison of different kinds of visual knowledge. Contrasting quarry workers' perceptions of the material environme
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This paper examines two separate political responses to food and social change in Europe. I begin with a brief re-examination of the Slow Food Movement, an international consumer movement dedicated to
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